Judith Gregory

Judith Gregory leads the Rethinking Health Initiative and Wellness Experience Research at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology in Chicago. Judith is also Professor Honorar at Aalborg University in Human-Centered Communication and Informatics (2009-2014). She is Conference Chair for the 7th International Design & Emotion Conference, October 4-7, 2010 in Chicago.

Judith has more than 17 years health informatics experience, contributing to a wide range of multi-disciplinary projects in design of health information systems and technology design in the US, Norway and Southern Africa. She was Co-PI for ethnographic inquiry in the Electronic Health Record iterative prototyping project of Kaiser Permanente (1993-98), which formed the basis for her doctoral dissertation 'Sorcerer's Apprentice: Creating the Electronic Health Record, Reinventing Medical Records and Patient Care' (Dept of Communication, UC-San Diego, 2000). In the Institutt for Informatikk, Universitetet i Oslo (IFI/UiO), Judith was a faculty mentor for the Clinical Information Infrastructure Research Group and a core faculty member in the dual International MSc-Informatics and MPH programs that are ongoing capacity-building collaborations between the medical and computer science faculties of UiO and universities and Ministries of Health in Mozambique, South Africa, Tanzania, Ethiopia and India in relation to the open source Health Information Systems Project in developing countries adapting participatory design in diverse contexts.

Judith is active in international design research and doctoral design education, participatory design, health informatics, science & technology studies and cultural historical activity theory conferences. Judith's recent book chapter, 'A Complex Model for International and Inter-Cultural Collaboration in Health Information Systems Design' appears in Design Integrations: Research and Collaboration (Poggenpohl & Sato, 2009) published by Intellect Books/University of Chicago Press.